Can Green Kill green? MA prepares for biofuels by tearing down forests

http://www.climateark.org/blog/2009/06/alert-no-biomassno-burning-cam.asp

” Burning forests to produce electricity threatens to destroy and further diminish many of America and the world’s forests. Protection and regeneration of forests, soils, freshwater, climate and biodiversity are urgent global imperatives, and creating massive new demands for any natural plant material is misguided and will further degrade ecosystems. Achieving global ecological sustainability [search] requires that renewable energy be defined as “no biomass/no burning”.

This article is an excellent example of how good ideas, good principles, if common sense isn’t applied to them, can go horribly wrong, like the corn ethanol experiment, and now the aggressive moves of Massachussetts on biofuels is repeating these same mistakes.

Paul Collier

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